Problems with paypal

[Jess Hampshire]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.62L.0805270117390.28740 at uglogin.ecs.soton.ac.uk 
>
          John-Mark Bell <jmb at netsurf-browser.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 May 2008, Jess Hampshire wrote:
> 
>> I am unable to make paypal payments with netsurf 2 but it works fine
>> with netsurf 1.0 (not tried 1.1, 1.0 is my known good fallback.)
> 
> Given that both 1.1 and 1.2 contain significant numbers of bug fixes to
> version 1.0, I advise you update.

I generally use the latest riscpkg version for all browsing.

>> Clicking on the link takes me to an error page rather than to the
>> correct order page (which NS 1 does)
> 
> This is far too vague to be of any use. What is the error page? What error
> message is displayed? Is this reproduceable? If so, have you a log file of
> a session where the failure occurs?

<https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=gVchZqQMNWSloxNbQ_6O 
nMiOrRqzAyv0COMCZit-ONbpVjiJ8HMAbOGFGR0&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f1ff80d546411d7f 
823b5265b6559fc2a37ef4de22a1503c3>

This link shows where I ended up.

The error message is from paypal. As though Netsurf is requesting the 
wrong page.

I have had this problem for ages (many months) but I had assumed that 
it was just ebay being crap. However I did manage to pay for something 
from ebay on netsurf on another machine (select based) a while ago. It  
is completely reproducible.

When I saw the same problem from another site http://ghosts.nin.com I 
tried with old version and it worked.

My system is an RO 5.11 with the riscpkg install.

Since paying with paypal is a pretty common thing, if it is broken on 
Netsurf 2 (or Netsurf 2 on RO 5 even), I think it unlikely that I 
would be the only one to notice, so it seems more likely there is 
something broken in my system. I won't be near my system from now 
until late june.

(I will still get the list via gmail)

If no-one else has reported the problem by the time I'm back, I'll 
download 1.2 and see if it works on that, and catch a log file of a 
failure.


-- 
Jess
 http://jess.itworkshop-nexus.net